8/22/2005: Dying hippos

[glatt]

Originally Posted by Queen of the Ryche

Can't a Cellarite be a smart ass anymore without getting sermonized/ I was just trying to bring a little levity to a grave situation by siding with the poor helpless hippos. Sorry if I touched a nerve Glatt. Here - have a nice cool glass of water.........

Sorry if I over-reacted. I wasn't blaming you personally. Everyone is just talking about how SAD it is that these poor rhinos are dying, and then you blamed the farmers in the area (based on what the article said). I get tired of people pointing their fingers at others as the problem, when they are just as guilty themselves. I am just as guilty as these farmers for the death of the rhinos. We all are. I was trying to point that fact out in a very specific way, using the desert southwest, and more specifically, L.A., as an example. We do the exact same shit here in the US every day, but with different wildlife. Nobody seems to care until there is a powerful image of a place far away where we can blame other people.

I'll take that glass of water. Thanks.

[Hobbs]

All I can see when I look at this pic is hippo soup. Yeh, shame on me for not being sensitive to the hippos.

[footfootfoot]

Originally Posted by glatt

Sorry if I over-reacted. I wasn't blaming you personally. Everyone is just talking about how SAD it is that these poor rhinos are dying, ...snip

Yeah, not to mention the hippos...

[Leah]

That is so so sad, and so horrible. I hate seeing anything suffer. Hippo's skin is very sensitive, they must all be in terrible pain. Poor things.

[Cyclefrance]

I guess man has tinkered with the balance of nature so often that a re-adjustment must be on the cards. Certainly the card must be marked - to the point of being barely recognisable for what it was originally, I would think...